I recently listened to a big of Y2J's podcast that featured Ellsworth and at one point Chris said the following:

"It was around early November, Vince says to me "Hey we're doing you and Kevin at Wrestlemania for the world championship and you are going over. And then you'll lose to Brock Lesnar at the next PPV". I though that's great, I have never won the world championship at Wrestlemania and I have never won a world championship as a face, so it was awesome for me. Then Survivor Series happens and Goldberg beats Brock in a minute. So apparently the deal was, Brock was willing to do the job for Goldberg, if he and Bill could run with this and reach Wrestlemania, where Brock could beat Goldberg for the title. So Vince had to make a desicion, what's the biggest attraction? So they went with Lesnar vs Goldberg and Chris and Kevin had to take a backseat. It's bussiness."

So there you have it. Owens and Jericho were supposed to get the Universal Championship match, while Lesnar would have been doing something else (probably Shane). What's most intriguing about this is the rumored Lesnar vs Jericho thing that never happened.

Looking back at it now, I wish it could have been Owens v Y2J for the Universal Championship and Goldberg v Lesnar in a non-title match.

I think it worked out for the best, really. Give me an Owens or Jericho match over a Lesnar or Goldberg match almost any day, but on this particular night all the pieces were in the right spot. Goldberg vs Lesnar might be the greatest >5min match in history, and Kevin got a WrestleMania win, which did more for him than it would have done for Jericho.

Besides, I kinda like Jericho's outlaw-status as a forever-heel World Champ. I'm not saying it would ruin anything in my eyes were he to get a babyface reign, but it's a little piece of trivia that I hold dear.

I like Jericho as much as the next guy and I even kinda like KO, but neither man has any business headlining Wrestlemania and we all know if the Universal or World Title didn't main event the show we would all bitch. Most people were none to pleased that Roman and Taker went on last.

That would have been so much better than what actually happened. It sucks that Brock apparently still would have gotten the title right afterwards, but the Brock VS Goldberg match did NOT need the title. Owens VS Jericho should have been the Universal Championship match.

I'll go as far to concede a grey area here. Jericho was well on the way to turning heel. It was a slow turn, as he exhibited jealousy towards the Rock. It may be debatable whether he was a heel or not, but I can't call that stage of his run to be a babyface.